Monday, October 24, 2011

In the past two years I made a number of house numbers in mosaics. This one was for Jennifer Trivett. I love the hen-feather look of the outer framing. There's lots of gold in this one that you can't see in this photo.

This was my first one:for our house.

I went ape for all the blue/white china available.

Chipped plates werebroken... with a hammerinside a heavy canvasbag!

On a blue/white roll! The Mayflower year!

These two were edged with unfortunate Zimbabwe broken plates... a very sad story.

This one is Boulder. From this one I learned a huge lesson in contrast.

At night the numbers don't stand out in the sea of grey. Oh sigh!!

I have decided I'm putting my equipment away for now. This way I'll make more space in my studio. I'll come back to it another time, but this spigot got closed off by choice for now.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Today I got a proposal for a show together.Tomorrow I hope to mail off to the Surrey Art Gallery a proposal for a show with my Project called Oh, Solo, Double Trio: Numbers in my Life.The next day I'll prep the similar proposal for the Richmond Gallery which is due in April. I dasn't mail it in too early. Things can get put in drawers & forgotten if timing isn't right. That happened to me once being too eager.

This proposal has been on my To Do list for quite a while.I still have 3 quilts to finish, but that's ok. Even with a go-ahead, I'd be given a date a bit off from acceptance time.And I'll have some time to develop the peripherals to the show that I'd like to do.I have quite a few number artifacts... that would be fun to have there.

So here's Fingers & Toes, the quilt about the number 10.

I made the stampers for this, from my own hands & feet. I even used the off-cut from the first hand stamp to make the negative image for the other hand. Similarly for the feet.

This one starts with the careful knotting of a transparent ribbon -- one of those really nice-edged ones. If you knot it just so, not too tight & not too loose a magical pentagon will show up, as will most of a pentogram. [Hold it up to the light.] This one is for the number 5. Well, it's actually getting too complicated.... but by a few more steps you can construct the famous golden rectangle, and build several more on top of that. And if you turn this quilt over someone has stitched a logarithmic spiral into the back that goes with the quilting on the front.

The spiral isn't dark enough. You can see a few spiral arcs above my head. Gotta fix that with more red for the spiral.

# 7 below

This one is about all my 07/07 birthdays that I can remember, with various xeroxed photos stitched on to the quilt-top.

This was taken before the quilt was assembled, quilted & bound. One of my favorite features of the graphics for the quilt is how clearly 1/2, 1/4, & 3/4 of an hour gets shown. So innocently.

The layout was a bitch today. I hope blogger doesn't mess me up too badly.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Well, silence has now redescended on our house,
& I am in reflective mode.

For the two mothers, Joslyn & Lesley, it was the usual level of chaos; & for George & me, it was greatly accelerated chaos. Noise, clutter, & social interaction levels all greatly increased.

Sunday morning the blue track got set up in our living room. It suctioned onto the window.

The 4 children participated, each at his/her particular level.

I did the pics.

This is Reed with Lesley. Though the blue track is usually at his house this time he was an observer.....

except when he had some important business on the side.

Timmo had a favorite truck called Pantry Truck [a name that has great sticking power] that rode the blue track many times with many mishaps-- over turnings, jumping the tracks, & going disastrously airborne. This truck got lots of kisses for all the pain it sustained in crashes.

Then Max's approach was that a car in the hand was worth two or more on the track. He wasn't up to relinquishing his favorites cars into the common fray.

Lucy was completely into it: races, crashes, & her car that both went into the air & landed back on the track. I forget it's name.

I went outside to take pix. Great reflections....

This all was so fun.

One hour of play. Oh My!!

It was a lovely visit. Erica was here too Saturday night, sandwiched between her new program in osteopathy. I didn't get pictures of her, but I did earlier.